Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/diddy-arrest-list-sean-combs-charges-explained-b2623689.html
Federal agents with US Homeland Security raided two of the rapper’s houses in Los Angeles and Miami on March 25 as part of an investigation into the allegations brought against him.
Combs has been charged with sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution after a federal grand jury in New York chose to bring an indictment against him.
He is accused of running a c...
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/diddy-arrest-list-sean-combs-charges-explained-b2623689.html
Federal agents with US Homeland Security raided two of the rapper’s houses in Los Angeles and Miami on March 25 as part of an investigation into the allegations brought against him.
Combs has been charged with sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution after a federal grand jury in New York chose to bring an indictment against him.
He is accused of running a criminal enterprise that consisted of his associates, employees and the influence of his business empire to coerce, control and abuse female victims. That includes “sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery and obstruction of justice” according to the indictment.
In an indictment unsealed on Tuesday morning, federal prosecutors allege Combs, and his associates threatened, abused and coerced women and others around him “to fulfill his sexual desires”.
That allegedly includes forcing victims into engaging in recorded sexual activity which he referred to as “Freak Offs.”
” During Freak Offs, Combs distributed a variety of controlled substances to victims, in part to keep the victims obedient and compliant,” prosecutors said in the document. “After Freak Offs, Combs and the victims typically received IV fluids to recover from the physical exertion and drug use.”
The music mogul was also recently hit with a $100 million default judgment on September 9 over an alleged sexual assault from a 1997 party against Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith.
Lenawee County Circuit Court Judge granted the award to Cardello-Smith, an inmate who filed the lawsuit against Combs, accusing him of drugging and sexually assaulting him at a party 30 years ago.
Combs, 54, has strongly denied all the allegations against him. His attorneys have branded the lawsuits and their accusations as money grabs, “baseless” or “sickening.”
On May 17, surveillance footage captured at a hotel in Los Angeles in March 2016 showed Diddy chasing his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura down the hallway before attacking her by the elevators. He then attempts to drag her back to his hotel room.
The following day, he shared an apology video to Instagram saying his behavior was “inexcusable” and that he took “full responsibility for his actions in the video”.
The slew of allegations in lawsuits against Combs date as far back as the 1990s, when he founded his own record label, Bad Boy Records.
All the allegations against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs:
Lawsuits against the rapper began on 16 November 2023 when he was sued by singer and dancer Cassie, his former partner, who alleged years of abuse.
It was filed under the New York Adult Survivors Act, just before it expired. This act offered a one-year window for adult victims of sexual assault to come forward with civil claims regardless of the statute of limitations.
Casandra ‘Cassie’ Ventura
R&B singer Cassie, whose full name is Casandra Ventura, filed a lawsuit in 2023 alleging that she was trafficked, raped and beaten by Combs on many occasions over 10 years.
Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith
A lawsuit was filed by Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith, 51, an inmate who claims Combs drugged and sexually assaulted him at a party 30 years ago, ccording to court documents obtained by Detroit’s Metro Times.
Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones
In the most recent lawsuit against Combs, filed on 26 February 2024 in New York, producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, alleged he was “subjected to unwanted advances by associates of Diddy at his direction” and that he was forced to engage in relations with the sex workers Combs had hired.
Joie Dickerson-Neal
In November 2023, Joie Dickerson-Neal filed a lawsuit alleging that Combs drugged her, sexually assaulted her and secretly recorded the assault while she was a college student in 1991, NBC News reported, citing the filing.
Crystal McKinney
In May, after the shocking CCTV footage of Combs attacking Venture was published, former model Crystal McKinney filed a new lawsuit claiming the rapper sexually assaulted her at his recording studio in New York City in 2003.
April Lampros
Days after McKinney’s lawsuit was filed, April Lampros – who met Diddy while she was a student – claimed Diddy had sexually assaulted multiple times between 1995 and the early 2000s.
Source: https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/hollywood/houston-lawyer-reveals-what-sean-diddy-combs-told-9-year-old-boy-and-other-minor-victims-i-will-make-you-101728133423306.html
Sean Diddy Combs' troubles seem to be escalating with 120 alleged victims, including a 9-year-old boy, accusing him of assaulting them.
Combs’s response to allegations
Sean Combs has strongly denied all the accusations against him and vowed to “fight for my name, my family and for the truth.”
In a statement in December, following the lawsuit brought by Jane Doe, he called the claims “sickening” and said his accusers were “looking for a quick payday”.
